Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 27 Issue 6
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An International JournalTable of contents
Finer Tools
IT was, we believe, MR MCKINNON WOOD who many years ago coined the picturesque phrase ‘the finer tools of research’ for wind‐tunnels. In one sense the expression nowadays seems…
The No. 19 Wind Tunnel at Farnborough: A Description of the Largest Supersonic Tunnel at the Royal Aircraft Establishment
A.E. KnowlerA LARGE supersonic tunnel was completed several years ago at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. A brief specification is as follows: the main working section has a…
Physical Society Exhibition: Details of a Selection from the Instruments and Apparatus Shown at the Exhibition
FOR the first time since it began to hold an annual exhibition, the Physical Society has been unable to hold it in the Imperial College of Science and Technology. The size of the…
Helicopter Rotor Vibration in the Tip Path Plane: An Analysis of the Effects of Induced Profile Drag and Coriolis Forces
P.R. PayneIn‐plane vibration of a balanced helicopter rotor is caused by variations with azimuth of the in‐plane forces acting on individual blades. These forces may be summarized under…
Rain Erosion Tests on Aircraft Surfaces at Supersonic Speeds
AMONG new problems faced by design engineers of supersonic aircraft and missiles is the destructive effect of rain. At transonic and supersonic speeds, rain erosion of aircraft…
Symposium on Boundary Layer Effects in Aerodynamics
THE symposium was opened by Sir Edward Bullard, Director of the N.P.L., who welcomed those who had come, particularly from afar. He explained that the symposia were a new activity…
The Library Shelf
In view of the continued expansion of civil air operations, it is perhaps surprising that few comprehensive textbooks dealing with airline maintenance practice have been published…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Memoranda of the United States…
Tools for the Workshop
It is common practice in the engineering industry to deburr newly cut gears by the lengthy process of hand filing. Recently the Elgro Machine Tool Co., a subsidiary of Gem Brushes…
Auxiliary Equipment
Auto Diesels Ltd. are now manufacturing for the N.A.T.O. Air Forces a ground starter using a Rolls‐Royce industrial reciprocating engine.
Month in the Patent Office
In order to avoid the imposition of excessive acceleration in a direction parallel to the normal axis of an aircraft the control system for a power‐operated elevator 12 includes…
U.S. Patent Specifications
A throttle‐controlled, propeller‐driving, gas turbine engine, for an aircraft, including a pitch‐change mechanism connected to vary the pitch of a variable pitch propeller, pitch…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb